A study based on NFHS-5 data has found that women with primary education were 16-31% less likely to justify intimate partner violence or experience emotional violence compared with women who did not have primary education. But was there no significant difference in the experience of physical violence
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Participants who consumed 250 grams of mango daily for breakfast for two months had better glycaemic control begining with lower fasting blood glucose level, more weight loss, reduced waist circumference, and improved insulin sensitivity compared with the control group that had 81 grams of white bread
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“Your full paper, we can publish by August 15. If you complete the payment [of Rs.23,000] today [August 6, 2025], formatting will be completed tomorrow and sent for publication,” the Chennai-based Academic Research and Development Association (ARDA) person messaged on WhatsApp. Phew!
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The number of retracted articles and papers commented for misconduct on PubPeer has been doubling every 3.3 years and 3.6 years, respectively, while papers produced by paper mills have been doubling every 1.5 years
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Expenses to run the research integrity office is well worth it, feels Dr. Shashidhara as the price the institution will pay in case of research misconduct will be huge in terms of future funding, recruitment and overall reputation
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Various indices that already exist focus on the magnitude of the floods or the inundation caused by the floods while ignoring the impact of flood on people, be it injury or deaths. The District Flood Severity Index developed by IIT Delhi and IIT Gandhinagar researchers addresses this lacuna
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While the loss was in the forest core and bridge areas (corridors connecting different core areas), the increase in forest area was mostly restricted to islets — patches of forest containing no core and representing isolated habitats. Nearly half of newly added forests were islets, while a negligible 6% increase in forest cover was in the core
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There were 50 earthquakes with over 5 magnitude, including the July 20, 2025 quake of 7.4 magnitude and three 6.6 magnitude earthquakes, preceding the July 30, 2025 quake of 8.8 magnitude. The 7.4 magnitude quake on July 20, 2025 may be a foreshock
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Looking for protein-packed natural food that is also rich in omega-3 fatty acid, calcium and iron? Turn to solar dried epipelagic fish such as mackerel, sardine, anchovy, and ribbon fish which are rich in protein, and low in salt. Fish dried through the traditional method has over 30% salt content, only 35-40% protein, and short shelf life
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In a trial in South Africa and Uganda, there were zero HIV infections among 2,134 participants who received Lenacapavir PrEP injectable once in six months. Gilead Sciences has licensed four pharmaceutical manufacturers in India to make and sell generic Lenacapavir
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NISAR will be the first satellite ever to observe the Earth with a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instruments — an L-band radar and an S-band radar (around 9 and 24 cm, respectively) — simultaneously and provide SAR data in single, dual and quad polarisations
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Science did not retract the paper in 2012 because there was no deliberate fraud or misconduct on the part of the authors. But Science’s standards for retracting papers have since expanded. If a paper’s reported experiments do not support its key conclusions, even if no fraud or manipulation occurred, a retraction is considered appropriate
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In August 2018, former IIT Dhanbad Director had said that scientific misconduct by Prashant Kumar Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri appears serious and may attract major penalty. In April 2021, Prashant Sharma was promoted as Associate Professor
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